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ZoomIt is screen zoom and annotation tool for technical presentations that include application demonstrations. ZoomIt runs unobtrusively in the tray and activates with customizable hotkeys to zoom in on an area of the screen, move around while zoomed, and draw on the zoomed image.

Even better, the data visualisation tools that can manipulate and present that information are getting easier to use and available to anyone. And it is in the social and political aspects of data visualisation that its real value emerges. "If you make these tools and data available to a broader range of people you are just going to get better ideas," said Dr Austwick.

The thing I want to avoid is for people to walk away from this presentation with the view that if work sucks, you can just put the lipstick of points and badges and completion bars and leaderboards on and suddenly make work exciting. we can learn a number of things from games:

You will find a significant amount of research that strongly supports the move to a learner centered teaching practice on this site. It also contains  all of my most recent presentations and more than 30 instructional resources designed to assist faculty and students in making the changes they will need to make if learner centered teaching is to be a successful learning practice for both groups.

Ted Mann might be interested in this. I sent it to him and Mike G

"Google Sites is a powerful but easy to use tool to create great websites. In this class we will cover the basics of setting up a classroom or organization website using Google Sites including a welcome page, calendar page, files page, links page, pictures page, announcement (blog) page, and more. This class will help you transition your existing site over to Google Sites, or help you start a new Site from scratch, or just give you a great introduction to what can be done with Google Sites."

AHA 2012-Teaching with Social Media

a one-size-fits-all approach to the provision of portfolios across a range of subject disciplines may not deliver the outcomes an institution desires. http://www.eportfolios.ac.uk/ePET?pid=32 During the course of the project it became clear that the aim of providing a 'one size fits all' e-portfolio was a trifle ambitious Using e-portfolios in legal education http://www.ukcle.ac.uk/research/projects/eportfolios.html

"Let's say we're designing a course that will help widget sales people overcome buyers' objections. The objection we're focusing on right now is this one: "I've read that your widget creates a lot of heat." We have a specific way we'd like our sales people to respond to that objection. Some people in our audience are familiar with the concerns about heat, while new people might not know as much. How do you think most training designers would approach this? I think they'd do it like this."

Participants will collaboratively build a set of shared online resources as they gain knowledge and skills to help faculty integrate technology. In each activity, groups will develop materials as Google Docs that will be immediately available to all. Participants don't need to be wizards but should be familiar with digital learning tools. Each participant must bring a laptop and should be able to create and edit Google Docs. The intended audience includes instructional technologists and technology integration specialists.

CuePrompter is a free teleprompter/autocue service. Your browser works like a teleprompter -no extra software needed.Check the system requirements and give it a try. Bookmark this site and come again when ever you need teleprompter services. Free for any use (both commercial and non-commercial). Write or cut and paste your script to the form below. Press the button to start the prompter. 

Streaming powerpoint slides.

Move PPT's to the web while retaining audio narrations and animations

publish documents and embed them

simple but think it might help

Prezi example

OmniDazzle is a set of fun and useful enhancements that help you highlight certain areas of your screen, create special effects, and track the location of your mouse pointer. Each plug-in can be configured to suit your own particular preferences: change colors, make objects bigger or smaller, or change the way you activate the OmniDazzle plug-in of your choice. By allowing you to manipulate your screen, OmniDazzle offers practical features for doing presentations, taking screen shots, focusing on specific tasks, and adding visual information to your desktop.

OmniDazzle is a set of fun and useful enhancements that help you highlight certain areas of your screen, create special effects, and track the location of your mouse pointer. Each plug-in can be configured to suit your own particular preferences: change colors, make objects bigger or smaller, or change the way you activate the OmniDazzle plug-in of your choice.

Great ideas from susan Simon - Dartmouth (NERCOMP 09 SIG)

Make your text huge. And then get rid of half of the words and make it huger. Most of my text in my entire deck is at least 90pt. Usually I like to sit around 150pt  The easiest way to make your slides visually interesting is to play around with the physical shape of the letters that constitute the word. Simple reiteration is important.